Warren MacKenzie Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• When we finished [training with my wife] we came to St. Paul, because St. Paul was the first place where we got a job offer and we needed some sort of a job to earn some money in order to set up our own studio. It's rather ironic that this job offer came originally through the Walker Art Center.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Jobs, Order

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• Hilda Reiss was the head of the Everyday Art Gallery. Hilda Reiss came from Germany, had trained at the original Bauhaus in Germany, and her training inspired her to think of anything that she liked as art.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Thinking, Everyday

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• I took a number of graphic courses, lithography and etching and wood engraving [at Art Institute]. And particularly as I got more and more into ceramics, I thought, life drawing doesn't have anything to do with ceramics.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Drawing, Numbers

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and I do know from what my parents tell me that I was always interested in art, although not very good at it.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Cities, Kansas City

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• I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history at the institute, Kathleen Blackshear. She was interested in silk screen and taught a class that I took.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Class, Training

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, School, Drawing

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• Chicago is a wonderful area because it's blessed with a tremendous number of museums of various sorts, not only the Art Institute of Chicago but the Field Museum of Natural History, the Oriental Museum on the south side.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Blessed, Museums

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• I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from high school, I went to the Chicago Art Institute, and it was there that I thought, well, now I'm going to be a painter.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, School, Chicago

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• Our main inspiration [with Alix MacKenzie], I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were selected not for art content but for their relationship to the anthropological history of mankind.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took painting classes - basic elementary painting classes and drawing classes of all sorts.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, School, Class

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• The two teachers that I had in the Art Institute who affected me the most were Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann; Kathleen Blackshear because she taught a class called design - I can't remember, design something, and in this class - it met once a week - we would do work centered around some theme, word or subject or technique or whatever, and bring it in for a three-hour discussion. And Kathleen was able, in watching and looking at our work, to direct us to all kinds of things which might relate to what we were trying to do, but she never attempted to tell us what to do.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Teacher, Art, Class

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• What I didn't know at the time [of my scholarship] was that the ceramic class was not really a very good class. This was many years ago and should not reflect on the conditions at the Art Institute of Chicago to this day, but we didn't know anything and we started to learn about how to work with clay.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Years, Class

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were taking ceramic classes where we had to do a sculptural piece. And when I say a sculptural piece, it's nothing like what we conceive of now as a sculptural piece.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, School, Class

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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